Wednesday, May 13, 2026 • 7:10 PM
Citi Field • Flushing, NY
LHP Framber Valdez (2-2, 4.57) vs. RHP Christian Scott (0-0, 3.27)
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The Mets got the spark they were looking for! A.J. Ewing had a tremendous major league debut last night recording a triple and three walks in a 10-2 romp of the Tigers. For the first time in a while the vibes feel good! It went beyond Ewing as the Mets recorded 13 hits with Benge, Soto, Vientos and Baty all recording two hits each.

Now the Mets will try to keep those vibes going tonight as they take on Framber Valdez.

Before the game, the Mets got more bad injury news with Francisco Alvarez suffering a right meniscus tear. He’s been placed on the injured list and Hayden Senger has been recalled.

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Mets Lineup

  1. Carson Benge – RF
  2. Bo Bichette – SS
  3. Juan Soto – DH
  4. Mark Vientos – 1B
  5. Marcus Semien – 2B
  6. Brett Baty – 3B
  7. Tyrone Taylor – LF
  8. A.J. Ewing – CF
  9. Luis Torrens – C

Starting Pitcher: Christian Scott

Christian Scott will make his fourth start of the year tonight. Over his first three starts he has tossed 11 innings with a 3.27 ERA, 4.02 FIP, 1.182 WHIP and a 125 ERA+. He’s coming off of a solid start in Colorado where he held the Rockies to only three hits and one run over 4 2/3 innings while striking out six. No one on the Tigers have faced Scott in a Major League game.

Opposing Lineup

  1. Kevin McGonigle – 3B
  2. Dillon Dingler – C
  3. Colt Keith – DH
  4. Riley Greene – LF
  5. Matt Vierling – CF
  6. Wenceel Pérez – RF
  7. Spencer Torkelson – 1B
  8. Zach McKinstry – 3B
  9. Zack Short – SS

Framber Valdez signed a 70 million two-year deal with Tigers this off season. The long time Astros ace will be returning from a five-game suspension tonight. Over eight starts, 43 1/3 innings, Valdez has a 4.57 ERA, 4.32 FIP, 1.408 WHIP and a 94 ERA+. He has allowed 26 runs, 22 earned, this season, but the vast majority of that happened in two starts. He allowed eight runs over five innings against the Twins on April 8th.

His last time out he allowed 10 runs, seven earned, over three innings against the Red Sox. During this start he intentionally threw at Trevor Story after giving up back-to-back home runs to open the fourth inning. Valdez says that it wasn’t intentionally and that he lost his grip on his fastball, and he’s been working on that during his suspension. The Mets have the following career numbers against him:

  • Francisco Alvarez 1-6, 2B, 2 K
  • Bo Bichette 4-13, HR, K
  • MJ Melendez 2-5, BB, 3 K
  • Marcus Semien 12-41, 2B, 2 HR, 7 BB, 10 K
  • Austin Slater 6-15, 4 K
  • Juan Soto 3-7, 3 BB, 2 K
  • Tyrone Taylor 0-5, BB
  • Luis Torrens 3-14, 2B, 3 K
  • Mark Vientos 1-6, HR, K

Game Notes

As mentioned above, Alvarez has hit the IL and Senger is back. Alvarez will have surgery and is expected to miss 6-to-8 weeks. Senger has already set a career-high with six home runs in Triple-A this year, though he has struck out 40% of the time.

Relief prospects Ryan Lambert, Dylan Ross and Jonathan Pintaro all had scoreless outings earlier on Wednesday for Triple-A Syracuse.

Jack Wenninger extended his scoreless streak to three starts (16.2 IP) for Triple-A Syracuse.

If you’ve been living under a rock, Mets top position prospect A.J. Ewing made his debut on Tuesday night and was quite good.

Three Things to Watch For

  1. Christian Scott. Scott has had a weird season so far. In his first start he struggled to get an out, in his second start he pitched a lot better than his line said (5 innings, 3 runs, 8 strikeouts). His xERA is 3.30 and xBA is .172. If he was a qualifying pitcher in Statcast, his xBA would somewhere in the 90th-ish percentile. This is true for his K% (31.3) and Hard-Hit% (29.2) as well. Despite the high K% he’s not generating a ton of chase (30.5%) and whiff’s (23%). As he makes more starts it will be interesting to see how some of these numbers start to settle.
  2. A.J. Ewing. What does Ewing do tonight as an encore? The Mets have been struggling this season to get hits, score runs, steal bases and work walks. Ewing had a triple, scored two runs, worked three walks and stole a base all in his first start. He’s already 12th on the Mets for walks in 2026. What a start!
  3. Carson Benge. Every player to watch tonight is part of the next generation of Mets players! Benge was moved to the leadoff spot last night and went 2-for-5 with a run scored. In his last eight games he has gone 9-for-26 with three doubles, a home runs, four walks and seven runs scored. That’s a .346/.433/.577 slash line. Since April 22nd he has raised his season slash line from .136/.219/.197 to .215/.280/.331.

Let’s go Mets!